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yet this can scarcely be accomplished, on account of the 
extreme delicacy of the corolla, except from an examination 
of recent specimens. That the present is the Menyanthes 
macrophylla of Roth, Pl. Ind. Or., as my friend Dr. Wight 
has considered it, there can, I think, be no question, and that 
it is the plant of Linneeus, provided the figure of Rheede and 
Rumphius are authorities for his species, I feel almost equally 
certain. So, also, I believe it to be the Cumada* of Sir W. 
Jones, in siat. Res. (Svo. ed.) v. 4. p. 249, which he has so 
accurately described, as even to notice * seeds appearing 
rough, with small dots or points;" only he has quoted 
Tab. 29, ( M. cristata, Roxb.) of Rheede, instead of Tab. 28, 
(M. indica. L.).  Roxburgh's M. indica, Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 31, 
I should have referred hither without hesitation, were it not 
that he terms the seeds “ obovate,” and does not notice the 
rough points with which they are covered. But his descrip- 
tion is otherwise excellent, and the figure, among the drawings 
in the Museum of the E. India Company, of which a copy is 
now before me, is highly characteristie of our plant. From my 
valued friend, Mr. Parker, I have received specimens of a 
Villarsia from Guiana, and a drawing made by Mr. Ankers, the 
flowers of which bear the closest affinity with our present spe- 
cies; but the leaves are smaller and far less coriaceous; and if it 
be the same as a plant I have received from Dr. M‘Fadyen, 
of Jamaica, the seeds are comp sse. Me 
free from raised points. "This may, perhaps, be the V. Hum 
boldtiana of Kunth. Very different from all these is the 
M. indica of the Bot. Magazine, t. 658, with deep yellow 
flowers, but whose native country is not stated in that work. 
Dr. Wallich, however, says that it is found in Nepal, and that 
_ the young stalks are there employed in making Curries, (see 
Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 31. note.) Sir James Smith (in Rees’ Cyel.) 
et M 
— an inhabitant of the Cape of Good "— 
"The Taian namo for this and oer atl aqu plants, menning 
delight of the — Sir W. Jones. 
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